Julie E. Kitka, 46, is a Chugach Eskimo and shareholder of Chugach
Alaska Corporation. She has one daughter - Sassa age 21. Kitka currently
serves as president of the Alaska Federation of Natives at the pleasure
of a 37 member Board of Directors representing the 13 Regional ANCSA
corporations, the 12 regional non-profit tribal associations and the
villages. She represents AFN before the U.S. Congress and federal agencies
and the Alaska State Legislature and state agencies on Native issues
of statewide importance. Kitka began working at AFN in late 1981 and
has held numerous positions within AFN including Special Assistant-Human
Resources, D. C. Lobbyist, and Vice-President. She earned a Bachelor's
Degree in Business Administration from the Alaska Pacific University
in Anchorage. She currently serves as one of seven Commissioners of
the Congressionally formed Denali Commission overseeing federal funding
of rural infrastructure.

Her personal interests include Asian-Pacific studies and History, gardening
and carpentry work. She is more well known at Spenard Builders Supply
than at Nordstroms.

Her professional goals include insuring that the Alaska Native community
is at the table when decisions are made which affect their lives and
working to change government policy to reflect Native goals and aspirations
for their own future.